/lit/ - Literature

Pride and Prejudice wouldn't work if not for the heavy bias towards Lizzy's thoughts.

catcher in the rye would've been better if it were narrated by alec baldwin

I'm still torn on 1st and 3rd person on Robinson Crusoe.

>>1739071

Wouldn't any book?

i started american psycho and it just seems like bateman's "friends" being insufferable cunts while eating dinner at some bitch's house, there is nothing going on and i don't give a shit about the characters

bateman isn't even the main part of the story so far, it's just him talking shit about everybody else and obsessing over how much everything costs, as if i should care or it's somehow interesting that he's a superficial faggot

why should i keep reading

but to keep on topic, i think catcher in the rye could have worked in third person

>>1739113
That's the whole point of the characters, they're yuppies. You hate them and they hate eachother.

>>1739113

>mfw I just went to breteastonellis's twitter after seeing american psycho

god damn he is such a flaming queer but i lol'd, following

>>1739061
>Posts about American Psycho
>Picture of the Columbine shootings

Touche, OP

>>1739119
yeah except it's supposed to be interesting but it aint

>>1739061
How did you feel when the book went into third person perspective?

>>1739113
Congrats. Enjoy the two hundred pages of the same.

>>1739113
I think the point was to catch you off guard. At a few points in the first act, vauge references are made to Bateman's supposed crimes (First he reads about a murder at a yacht party, later on he thinks somone who was at that party was looking at him in fear and shit like that.) Really, it's just laying the foundation for the rest of the story, so you know who Bateman is and the world he lives in, and how he and his crimes go undetected for so long, mostly because of his social standing.

>>1739135
I thought that was pretty clever.

>>1739132
its supposed to establish what a comically self absorbed douchebag he is...

>>1739139
I always felt batman was just imagining all of the crimes and that's why everyone didn't believe him when he finally broke down and confessed. True the masterpiece I've read this book several times and every time I get to where he kills his ex girlfriend I have to put it down that part is s intense first time I read that part I felt sick to the stomach

>>1739154
>batman
>batman = batman
>christian bale plays both of them in movies
>my god damn motherfucking face when

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>>1739135

I'd forgotton about that. A cool detail that actually added something to the cahracter.

>>1739113
I absolutely loved the book. But that might just be because (and this is going to make me sound extremely hipster and pretentious) I approached it from the right angle.

I didn't try to make a straight-forward narrative out of it. Instead, I read it as a psychological trip.

The things you find redundant in the book (Bateman and his friends regurgitating the same information from news headlines and magazine articles; Bateman cataloging what each character wears; climactic, grizzly scenes being followed by ads for albums and Sony products; the disjointed quality of the narrative) all work to thrust you into Patrick's own existence.

>>1739154

I always saw it in this light: it's a combination of general apathy and the resulting confusion (Patrick always getting mixed up with Marcus; the Paul "sightings" in London) makes it impossible to discover who is really committing the murders. Furthermore: the victims are either common street whores, dime-a-dozen spoiled bimbos, typical trendy faggots, or yuppie scum.

There are (as far as I can remember) only two instances where someone gives a shit about Patrick's murders, and one of them simply has to do with the fact that the victim was in debt to someone at the time of his death.

>>1739156
Have a happy insanity.

>>1739139
>>1739144
best trip name i've seen on /lit/. darkplace ftw.